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Quotation from Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
“A little poison now and then: that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for a pleasant death”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Prologue, §5, trans. Thomas Common (1892)
Part of the portrait of the 'last man', who has 'discovered happiness' and manages it with small doses of sedation.
Citation: "A little poison now and then: that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for a pleasant death" — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Prologue, §5, trans. Thomas Common (1892). (id thus-spoke-zarathustra-q5)
Portrait: Nietzsche187a, Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain.
